Sc . LrsViTICUS X11. cleansed from the fountaine of her bloods Chis is the law of the childbearing-woman; 8. for a. male, or for a female. And if her hand find not enough for a lambe ; then Ate (hall cake two turtles, or two yong pigeon ; one for a Burnt- offring, and one for a Sinne- offring: and the Priefl Aiall make- atonement for her, and Aie ¡tall be cleane. vinnotations. Dt'1 Here begrnneth the fever and twenti.. cth Se£tiota of the Law. See Gen. 6. 9. Oneeivedfeeel] or reéldeed feed; Hebrew,(ceded: \,A which in Generis 1.1 t.iignifierh the bearing, or yeelding of feed. Here alto it meaneth the wo- mans yeelding or giving of feed untoconcepti- on (as Aben Ezra explaineth it) and the word bnrn,following,fagnifies the bringing forth therof into the world. The Chaldec tranilateth it, con- coked. From there words,yeclded feed, and borne a male; the Hebrew Doaors gathered, that the woman which yeeldeth feed full, he.tretb aanale , (and ifthe man,yeckletb it fail , a female) R. Menaclxm on Levitt z. and R. Solomon, on Gen. 46. 15. As the former laws concerned uncleanneffe,which pro- .acceded from without , fo this , and the reft that follow, concerne nncleanneffe which commeth frontwithiit ;and the cleanfing of the fame by the grace of God in Chrift. And Si. larehi noteth, from a- former Author, that se man rear firmed after all çatted, oil heap. andfowls, bathe work of the crea- tion, ( Genefis 1.) fe his Law it fit down after the Law ofbea s,fñwles, &c. (Leviticus II.) a man- chide] or, a mall: fo after, a maid- ehitde, orfemale, as in v.7. And this law the Hebrews fay, taketlt place, whether the birth be timely or untiñrely, living or dead , fo that it hath the perfeft fhape; Which they limit to be after fortie dales from the conception. If within fortie daies,they bold no uncleanneffe of childbirth thereby, Malmoey in 1,f¡rerei trials, chap.ro.(fe&. t, 2. feparati9n3 or, remrvall. The Hebrew N/c/dab, though it be fontetimes generally ufed for any uncleanneffe, feparated or removed away,Ezra 9.11. z Chron. 29. 5. yet commonly it is ufed fora woman fe- paration for antonthly flours; whereof fee Levit. 15. 19. &c. infrrmitic] or, her men firewll-fret- ne(((e; tot unto that is the origissail word appro- priated i that as at fetch á time; the was feparated fromall communion with others, and from her husbands bed, and defiled whatloever thee did lie,fit upon, ortouch, Leviticus 15.2o,'a t. fo at her child -birth, thee fhould be unclean (even dales for a male, and fourteen daies for a female-, with as contagious a pollution as the other.And this is in refpeE of her child-birth , though no other accident fhould appeare: as the Hebrew cannons fay , Every woman in Mhitd -birth it rencleane , so amenflrout-woman; yea; although there be no -blood fern: Maitnony, in Iffitrei heals, ch. to. f.1. Now the uncleanneffe of a woman in her menkruall- -t , fickneffe, was for the as great as hers that had an iffite : and defiled afo by her fpittle and urine ; as is after noted on Levit. 15. 8. 20. &c. This uncleanneffe of a woman by chid- birth, ar- gueth the corruption of nature, whereby wee all are children ofwrath, Ephef. 2.3. For by one mans dtfobedienee , many are made inners : and, by the fence ofocie , judgement is route upon all men to condemnation, Romans 5. 19, 18. that every man fhould con- felfe with David, In fm my mother conceived. me, Pfal. 51.7. Among the Gentiles, this lawofunclean- neffe was allo kept , as appeareth by Iphigenia in the'ltoet, faying; I msfli/te the fiphifineoftbeGoddeffé (Diana) who ,if any man touch a (louse perfon , or a ono- matt in ehi/dhed, ox a dead corps; foe drizeob him from her Altars, counting him at uuckane : yet floe ber f/feede igbt- etbtohsve men h ledinfrcrifi,euntober,Euripid.Iphi- gen. its 'rands. V.3. the fie A] that is, the flan-part, which hath afreperflu e- foreskitupmit. So by thofleflsift//fore k' , is meant, theforeskin of the fl efh : as by ftiver of fhekels, Lev.5. 15. is meant, fhelrels of filter, and ton. cleanuef ofman,Lev.y.z t. is, for a man ofntnkamrcffi; and many the like. Of this foreskin, and the ctr. ettmdfron thereof, fee the notes on-Gen. t 7. t t. It figured the taking away of nians hereditary fin, and originall undeanneffe, inputting off the batty of the fns ply f efh, by the cirsemeiftoaof Cbrifi, COI. 2. 1 t. Pfa1.5 t.7. And this circumcifion of the child in the eight day, agreed alto with the law for all o- ther yong creatures,which were not fit to be of- fred unto theLord,beforethe eight day from the birth,Exod.a z.30. See Gent 7.12. Ver.4. 'ball emrinste]Heb. fbaifn: that is, abide 4 at home, and not come into Gods fan&nary. So fining is for abiding or continuing a in Lev.8. 35. and often. in thebloods] or fir the bloods: which word, in the plurali number, ufually fìgnifieth uncleanneffe , or guiltinelïe , either for nturther, as in Gen.4.t o. or fornatural' pollution by ori- ginal! fine that dwelleth in all, as in this place, and after inLevit 5. Wherefore they that are re- generate, and new creatures in Chrift, are laid to be borne , not of bloods, Joh. 1.13. ofher ekm- fing] or, purification : or, ofdeanne. The originali word ftgnifieth , both eleanfmg or purification , as it is interpreted by the holyGhoft in Luk.z.z a.and alfo cleannef or purity: in which fenfe,blaadrofelean- txf,is by the Creek interpreters here tranflated, her elrane (or pure) blood: and in 7hargttm l natban it is expounded, and the 33. dales nextfóllotring, all her bbad Thai! be clear: for,her greatelt uncleanneffe had an end at p.daies,v.z z. 33.daies] to which adde the (even day es foremetttioned, and there are fortie daies : all which time Thee was debarred from the holy things of theLord.W hich number of fortie daies, is often ufed for the time of hu- miliation before God, as in the fall of Aloft!, Éliar, and Chrik our Lord: fee the notes on Genets 7. 4. So this Law taught mortification and humiliation, in refpe& of that hereditary fin, which by the parents is conveighed to the children, Pfal.5 i,3. whereby they naturally are undeane,I Cor.7.14.and children afwratb,Eph. z.3. For
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